Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ajina

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Abstract noun from *ȃje (“egg”) +‎ *-ina, probably originally implying "eggness" (property or feature relevant to eggs).

Noun

*ājinà f

1. eggshell

Declension

Declension of *ājinà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ājinà	*ajĩně	*ājinỳ
genitive	*ājinỳ	*ājinù	*ajĩnъ
dative	*ājině̀	*ājinàma	*ājinàmъ
accusative	*ājinǫ̀	*ajĩně	*ājinỳ
instrumental	*ājinòjǫ, *ajĩnǫ**	*ājinàma	*ājinàmī
locative	*ājině̀	*ājinù	*ājinàsъ, *ājinàxъ*
vocative	*ajino	*ajĩně	*ājinỳ

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Related terms

• *ajьnъ (“egg-related”)
  • *ajьnikъ (“egg product”)
  • *ajьno (“amnion”)
• *ajьčьnъ (“egg-related”)
  • *ajьčьňa (“eggness”)

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: јајина (“eggshell”) (dialectal)

    Latin script: jajina (“eggshell”) (dialectal)

In toponyms:

• Serbo-Croatian: Јајина
  • ⇒ Горња Јајина (“Upper Jajina”)
  • ⇒ Доња Јајина (“Lower Jajina”)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*ajina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 62